United States Department of State

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The United States Department of State is the federal executive department responsible for the country’s foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic missions abroad.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf federal executive department
foreign affairs ministry
abbreviation DOS
STATE
budgetUnit US dollar
surface form: United States dollar
cabinetLevel yes
cooperatesWith United States Agency for International Development (in coordination)
surface form: United States Agency for International Development

Department of Defense
surface form: United States Department of Defense

United States Department of Homeland Security
country United States of America
employs Civil Service employees
United States Foreign Service
surface form: Foreign Service Officers

locally employed staff at overseas posts
formedOn 1789-07-27
hasSubOrganization Bureau of African Affairs
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
Bureau of International Organization Affairs
Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
United States Agency for Global Media (historical oversight role)
headedBy United States Secretary of State
headquartersBuilding Harry S. Truman Building
headquartersLocation Washington, D.C.
legalBasis Act for establishing an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of Foreign Affairs (1789)
locatedIn Washington, D.C.
surface form: District of Columbia
memberOf Cabinet of the United States
surface form: United States Cabinet
nativeName United States Department of State self-linksurface differs
surface form: Department of State
oversees U.S. consulates
U.S. embassies
U.S. permanent missions to international organizations
United States Foreign Service
partOf executive branch of the United States government
positionInCabinet principal foreign policy advisor to the President of the United States
precededBy United States Department of State self-linksurface differs
surface form: Department of Foreign Affairs
reportsTo President of the United States
responsibleFor U.S. diplomatic missions abroad
foreign assistance policy guidance
foreign policy of the United States
human rights reporting
international relations of the United States
issuing U.S. passports
providing consular services to U.S. citizens abroad
public diplomacy
representation of the United States at the United Nations
treaty negotiation and ratification processes support
shortName United States Department of State self-linksurface differs
surface form: State Department

United States Department of State self-linksurface differs
surface form: U.S. Department of State
website https://www.state.gov/

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S/GWI parentOrganization United States Department of State
John employer United States Department of State
subject surface form: John S. Mosby
regional bureaus of the United States Department of State partOf United States Department of State
DCS partOf United States Department of State
DCS employer United States Department of State
Under Secretary of State partOf United States Department of State
Rusk employer United States Department of State
subject surface form: Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk employer United States Department of State
Under Secretary of State for Management partOf United States Department of State
Laurie S. Fulton employer United States Department of State
Deputy Under Secretary of State partOf United States Department of State
Deputy Under Secretary of State employer United States Department of State
Muna Lee employer United States Department of State
Ryan C. Crocker employer United States Department of State
Hannah Rosenthal employer United States Department of State
Richard Holbrooke employer United States Department of State
Michael H. Armacost employer United States Department of State
Margaret Heckler employer United States Department of State
United States Consul General in Guayaquil, Ecuador employer United States Department of State
John employer United States Department of State
subject surface form: John Watson Foster
John employer United States Department of State
subject surface form: John Sherman Cooper
U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver partOf United States Department of State
U.S. Consulate General in Calgary partOf United States Department of State
United States Ambassador to the Bahamas employer United States Department of State
Embassy of the United States, Nassau partOf United States Department of State
U.S. Ambassador to Sudan employer United States Department of State
Jamie McCourt employer United States Department of State
Larz Anderson employer United States Department of State
AF Assistant Secretary partOf United States Department of State
subject surface form: Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
United States ambassador to Madagascar employer United States Department of State
Thomas C. Hubbard employer United States Department of State
Patrick J. Hurley (as United States Secretary of War) employer United States Department of State
subject surface form: Patrick J. Hurley
Philip Habib employer United States Department of State
Biegun employer United States Department of State
subject surface form: Stephen Biegun
Marshall D. Shulman employer United States Department of State
Edward J. Perkins employer United States Department of State
U.S. minister to Iceland employer United States Department of State
Charles R. Codman employer United States Department of State
ENR parentOrganization United States Department of State
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs partOf United States Department of State
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs parentOrganization United States Department of State
SPI parentOrganization United States Department of State
United States Minister to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies partOf United States Department of State
Office of Global Change partOf United States Department of State
Office of Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues partOf United States Department of State
Office of Science and Technology Cooperation parentOrganization United States Department of State
Office of Marine Conservation partOf United States Department of State